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A sparkling little corner for navigating motherhood, family, life’s unexpected storms, and all the glorious chaos in between, with plenty of humor, heart, and a dash of magic.

  • Learning to Love The Truly Dazzling World of Solitude
    Conjure up a parliament in old England: a stately room of soaring ceilings, carved wooden chairs and podiums, colorful flags and the smell of lemon furniture polish and Old Spice wafting through the air, except in this room the scents change to freshly fallen leaves, a forest of pine trees,
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  • “I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no more hurt, only more love.” Mother Teresa
    I’ve seen things during my time that there are no words for, and now, at the age of 54, when the amount of loss and trauma in my life is staggering and seems too heavy to bear, guess what makes it lighter? Guess what takes away the sting of betrayal,
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  • Two Dresses and a Spinning Wheel
    I spent this morning going through my closet, looking for two dresses: one to wear to a wedding and one to wear to a funeral. Sigh. This grand pageant of life can feel less than grand sometimes. I have a whole team of people I call when the going gets
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  • Jolabokaflod- An Icelandic Book Flood and Signing at the Wenham Museum
    Hello My Darlings!! I recently learned that Iceland has a dreamy Christmas tradition involving the gifting of books on Christmas eve, followed by a night of hot chocolate and reading together by the fire. This is my idea of a perfect night (I would add in dancing and jumping on
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  • The Wild Adventure of Parenting a Rockette Rabbit… I mean, Theater Kid
    My daughter is getting her college degree in acting in New York City, and it fills me with endless delight to hear about her curriculum.“How was school today?”“It was great! We went to the Central Park Zoo.”“The zoo? Why?”“To pick out an animal.”“To pick out an animal? For what? To
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  • Pumpkins
    Today I finally understood why Cinderella was transported into a magical realm by a pumpkin. I can’t believe these big round orange magical things grow from tiny seeds into sprawling vines and then sprout these incredible fairy tale globes, the very essence of growth and transformation. So I decided to
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  • How did I end up at Harvard?
    I guess the point is that, even now, a million years later, books are my Orient Express, my journey into the Sultan’s Palace, my feet slipped into the upturned toes of a genie’s slippers, and my three wishes involve more books, the kind that feel like catching magic by the
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  • My Mom is Living in a Fairy Tale Kingdom Living Under a Curse… AKA Dementia
    The last day I visited my Mom was like visiting a fairy tale kingdom living under a curse…
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  • The Unhealable Wound
    It looked like she was some sort of goddess scattering starlight made of love-bursts right out of her body to wrap around mine. I think she would like that I am not running from my pain. but absorbing and integrating it into my soul, allowing it to change me moment-to-moment,
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